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One thing about work in France - 35 hours is the rule.
But some companies keep working 39 (check the ANPE site, you'll find). Some offer brilliant contracts of 12 hours. My last contract was 15, and I wanted more.
The mother of the 35 hours week, Martine Aubry, mentioned that the French unions are extremely weak. Which meant employees needed someone else's help to face their bosses.
Hence the law.
Now France is gonna work like any other country : bosses and unions discuss conditions and let it go. Given that being in an union in France leads you to the waste basket (I could give you examples among my friends), the French worker's fear is that he'll be used, overused and so on. Because nothing has been made to promote the unions.
By the way, the 35 hours didn't reduce productivity. French productivity's quite good.
"Work more, earn more" was the ridiculous deal.
Among my colleagues were workalcoholics and lazy ones. A lazy girl was truly great once she started working. A workaholic was a disaster as he never read any file and kept requesting things from suppliers (requesting information that had already been given and transcripted), because it was easier, and you could do that often. Repeated activity seemed a proof of quality. But it was only wankery.
"Work more, earn more".
Sarkozy moves a lot and believes he's working. Poor turd.
Now, our president is addicted to agression.
This is rather new here.
What he did in July so far :
- He reshaped public television; he offered private television more space for advertising and banned all advertising/commercial on public TV, so that private TV's wealth increases (one of his closest friends owns a channel); public TV? € 650 million are looked for; who's gonna pay? Your guess.
- He agressed the whole army, treated every single general an amateur because of an isolated drama.
- He happily proclaimed that when a strike happened in France now, noone could hear.
See how weak unions are when the French right wing is on top.
Vous ne souhaitez pas augmenter la redevance audiovisuelle. Comment, dans ce cas, maintenir l’effort de création d’un service public déjà sous-financé ?
J’ai une conception exigeante du service public audiovisuel, et je veux renforcer les obligations culturelles et éducatives qui pèsent sur les chaînes. Pour disposer des ressources nécessaires, je ne propose effectivement pas une augmentation de la redevance, car il y a déjà trop de prélèvements obligatoires dans notre pays. Je pense qu’une augmentation des ressources publicitaires et des ressources tirées des produits dérivés est possible, et qu’elle ne dénature pas le service public audiovisuel.
Bold : Emmanuel Berretta, itallics Sarkozy; interview given the 18/04/2007 (in Le Point).
For those who don't read French, in April last year Sarkozy said he'd have more commercials on public TV. And in february this year, he said commercials would be banned from public TV.
And I did not mentioned foreigners.
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